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They got Albert Finney to play Hercule Poirot. They also got, in alphabetical order as protocol dictates, Lauren Bacall, Martin Balsam, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Sean Connery, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Anthony Perkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Rachel Roberts, Richard Widmark and Michael York, all as murder suspects. And still they got nothing...
...give their four children, Crown Prince Reza, 14, Princess Fahranaz, 11, Prince All Reza, 8, and Princess Leila, 4, "as much of a normal, natural life as we can," Farah and the Shah set up a special palace school with 45 other children. She has no great love for protocol, often eludes palace security and slips out for a walk in a nearby park, inadequately disguised in scarf and sunglasses. Although her wardrobe formerly came from European couturiers, she now mostly buys clothes made in Iran from local fabrics. She has also donated her choicest jewels to Iranian museums...
Shortly after Ford moved into the White House he went back to his Alexandria home to pick up his shoe trees. A graduate of the Nixon School of Imperial Protocol was aghast because American Presidents are not supposed to indulge in such menial tasks. Fortunately Ford has not as yet found out that he is completely above the humdrum routines of daily existence...
...Israel, Kissinger's plane was scheduled to land at Tel Aviv's Ben-Gurion Airport a half-hour before the Jewish Sabbath was over. Israeli protocol officers advised the blue and white jet to circle somewhere until the holy day officially ended...
Finally we come to dwell on what should be an insignificant point--a simple matter of common courtesy. You, Mr. Bok, occupying the president's chair, are responsible for being aware of the subtleties of protocol. Is it more than chance that you neglected to place a phone call to the chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department before announcing the appointments to the advisory board? Do you normally cause chairpeople of University departments to find out about decisions of such magnitude through a newspaper? That is what you did in the case of the Afro-American Studies Department...